Fe Isotopes in Martian Meteorites: Role of Water and Possibility of Life on Mars
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Searching for signatures of life on Mars: an Fe-isotope perspective.
Recent spacecraft and lander missions to Mars have reinforced previous interpretations that Mars was a wet and warm planet in the geological past. The role of liquid water in shaping many of the surface features on Mars has long been recognized. Since the presence of liquid water is essential for survival of life, conditions on early Mars might have been more favourable for the emergence and ev...
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